OKC star Steve Adams' reported explanation as to why he has not made himself available for selection to the New Zealand basketball team...

The recent clearance of UK rider, Chris Froome, to ride in this year’s Tour de France adds yet another sorry chapter to this historic...

The ball tampering events of the last two weeks left me thinking about the early experiences of elite athletes that set the ground work...

I was finalising this post when news of the Australian ball tampering came through. Not just an individual player, but a ‘team’ decision...

The two earlier posts in this three-part series discuss some of the scientific principles of teaching and learning that should underpin...

In part two of my posts on coaching kids, I look at the acquisition of basic sports skill from a school system perspective. Two main...

There’s a conversation going on in sport and physical education today that asks whether our children’s experience of sport is good...

The late great British athletics coach, Wilf Paish, once told me that in all his fifty years of coaching, no coach had ever come to him...

This post has been delayed for two main reasons. First, Coach Lawrence has a been a bit under the weather needing a visit from Dr Greg...

Tennis players turning up to a tournament, withdrawing without serving a ball, yet each claiming guaranteed prize money of $7,604. Then...

For your New Year holiday reading, today’s post is longer than usual and bit technical. If you’re someone who doesn’t trust science or...

Earlier this week, I came across a troubling example of a coach talking ‘science’ to justify training programme content for a 16-year old...

Recent stories of England cricketers doing some odd things after hours in bars is part of a long narrative about professional (mostly...

Of course, not a lot of the standard sayings we have as coaches are original. Often we appropriate the clever words of others and use...

Recent street protests about and legal challenges to a recent refereeing decision offer us an insight to sport that coaches urgently need...

This short post follows my last comments about the role of those who surround athletes (including coaches). I got good feedback on it as...

This was a difficult blog to write. It’s about real people and real consequences. The death on 18 November at 50 of the great Turkish...

This post returns to the issue mentioned in earlier post on individualised training and coaching in team settings. Coaches of individual...

Violent events at the Rugby League World Cup last week (5 November) threw up a couple of issues around violence and violence in sport...

"Nothing makes my blood boil like when I'm told I can't do something because I'm a woman". Well said that woman co-presenter on TV3 news...